Marisawright

I think you mean PR not sponsorship? The TSS visa does not convert to PR. It is a temporary visa for 2 to 4 years and then, if you are lucky, you may be able to apply for PR but there is no guarantee you'll get it. With a TSS visa, you should always assume you're going home at the end of it, and negotiate relocation costs with the employer accordingly (and don't sell your house). The state sponsored visas are provisional visas, not temporary visas, which means they have a defined pathway to convert to PR provided you meet the requirements at the time.

I think everyone is finding it tough to get enough points these days. As you may know, it's a competition not a queue, so although you only need 65 points to apply, it's a waste of time applying unless you can score well over that. I believe the 189 needs over 80 points at the moment.

Exactly this. There is a massive difference between arriving in Australia and not liking it much, and arriving in Australia and feeling as though you've left a chunk of your soul behind. If you just don't like where you've landed, then as Bulya says, trying other locations can offer the solution. But if you're yearning for your homeland or your family, you're never going to find the answer in Oz. You might be able to divert yourself for a while but as you found, it will never completely go away. Again, I'd urge @samt4 to talk to her boyfriend before deciding to sacrifice her happiness for the sake of his business. She's making a huge assumption about how he really feels and whether he understands how she really feels, and that all needs to be sorted out first.

Yes you can. I went back after thirty years and all I had to do was fill out a form

No, because it’s not necessary. You move the whole lot to an income stream. Then the money in the income stream fund continues to be invested and earn interest exactly the way it did in your super fund. So there would be no benefit in leaving any money in your super fund.

That’s interesting but I wonder if you were treated incorrectly at the time. What the regulations say and what actually happens aren’t always the same - staff at a local level are often confused

.....and may never ever happen, which is why you don’t have kids until you’re sure. But actually I felt settled in Sydney as soon as I arrived

Correct

Regardless of what your specialist would like to do, as soon as you cease to reside in the UK, you can no longer get treatment or medication on the NHS. You’ll have to pay your specialist privately and pay the full price for your medication too.

Yes I'm afraid they have been making it steadily more difficult every year. Australia used to welcome migrants because there was a real shortage of local skills, but that's not the case any more. In general, we have enough skilled people, it's just that most Australians (and most migrants) want to live in the big cities near the beaches and good amenities. There's a lot of talk about our major cities being overcrowded and of course, the government doesn't want to make that worse because it might lose them votes! That's why the 491 has been introduced, to try to make migrants stay out of those cities and go where the shortages are. I'm concerned about your points. Have you done the English test? For the PR visa, you need a minimum of 65 points before you're allowed to apply, BUT you need a lot more than that to stand any chance of getting a visa. Your application doesn't go into an orderly queue. It's a competition, and only the people with the highest points get picked. Hundreds of applications come in every single day. If you've only got 70 or 75 points, there will always be people joining the queue with higher points, so you''ll just get ignored. There is such a flood of applicants with high points that you don't have a snowball's chance with less than 80 points these days, and it's often even higher than that. If you need to go for the 491, then my concern is that you'll need to be under 45 when you're eligible to convert to PR. The age for the other visas was reduced to 45 just recently and I'd be willing to bet that the 491 will be the same. In your case, it'll take at least a year for your application to be processed so you'll be over 42 by the time you arrive in Australia, so your chances of getting your PR application in before you're 45 are slim - and that's assuming they don't bring the age limit down even further, which they might. In summary, the sooner you have a chat with an agent, the better. There's no point in spending time checking out universities or jobs until you find out whether you can get a visa in the first place.

That list is all the postcodes that are within the regional areas. The big city postcodes aren't there.

Bank to bank is usually the most expensive way to do it

I had a similar experience. I have three sisters. When my Dad got infirm, one of my sisters stepped up and looked after everything. It wasn't my oldest sister who lived close by - it was my other sister who lived several hours away. In his last year or so, he needed constant care, and she left her family and moved in with him full-time (which wouldn't have been easy, he was a cantankerous old bugger even when he was well!). I was so grateful to her and paid for her daughter to come out on a WHV (she ended up living with me for nearly the whole year, so much for adventurous youth!). When my Dad died, the will split his estate equally between us. There was a huge fight. My oldest sister and my youngest sister felt that was unfair, because Dad had been making monthly payments to the sister who'd been caring for him - so they said, "she's already got her money out of him". I had always felt it was fair: knowing she was looking after Dad was priceless for me, and besides, I knew she'd spent most of that money on petrol and buying little things for Dad's old house to make things more comfortable for him. I've patched things up with my younger sister but I've never spoken to my oldest sister since.

What do you mean by benefits? The best visa you can get is the 189 because it's permanent and gives you total freedom to live anywhere in Australia. The 190 is the next best because it's permanent, but you have to live in the designated state for the first two years. The 489 was the third best, because it was only provisional and you had to stay in your designated state for three years, then you could get PR. The 491 has replaced the 489 and is similar, but the conditions are tougher.

A reputable migration agent will give you a free initial consultation, so that's the sensible first step. They'll be able to give you an idea of whether you're eligible and where to start.

@KangaKit, I really think it's time you booked a consultation with someone like Paul Hand, so he can tell you what visa you can get and give you an idea what your chances are. It won't cost you anything to have an initial consultation and there's no obligation to go any further. I say that because you asked a question about age earlier. If you're sailing close to the deadline for age, then you need to act fast or you might miss your chance altogether.

It’s nothing to do with your visa. It freezes as soon as you cease to be a legal resident of the UK

It has a good reputation too. Not sure about the fees information though. You could be right, because apparently 491 holders will be eligible for Medicare so maybe they're being more generous than for the old 489

It is complicated but I think that site is going out of its way to make it look worse than it really is - after all, they want you to pay them to do the application! Basically, all you've got to do is fill in two forms, one online and one printed. It's true that they take a long time to fill them in (and don't, whatever you do, submit the online form till it's 100% complete and you've checked it ten times!), but it's doable if you take it slow.

@Amv88, are you still there?

Partner's income is irrelevant. They want your payslips for the last six months. I suggest double-checking that though, as we used our savings so we didn't have to jump through that hoop. It still seems weird to me that they'd accept an Australian salary as proof of income when you're obviously about to leave your job! If doing the police checks means you can get a signed contract of employment to attach to the application, then yes, I'd wait for that. By the way, we didn't attach anything about our accommodation but that was a few years ago. It seems as though things have got a lot stricter since then. It would be worth Googling to find out what they require now. I found this site: https://www.migrate.org.uk/spouse-visa-uk-2018/#1544387795449-9764f0f2-cf40fc0b-8dc2ba60-1504 I've never heard of the site before but their DIY pack sounds like it might be worth getting for that price, for peace of mind.

But there are no universities outside Perth because there are no major population centres outside Perth. What course do they want to do? Have you checked how much the international fees are? Why are you aiming at WA?

@KangaKit, I had a look at your previous posts and it seems like you've been trying to migrate for quite some time and not getting very far. Have you ever had a free consultation with one of the migration agents on these forums, to get a proper idea of what your chances are?

It's virtually impossible. Where you see a state saying you must have a job offer to apply for a 491, they're basically saying they don't want overseas applicants. It exists just to cover those situations where people are already in Australia on working holiday visas or postgraduate visas, who may already have done some work to impress an employer.

They want evidence of your last six months' employment, even if that was in Australia - they know you can't continue that job, but it's indicative of your employability. It's your Australian salary that will be used to meet the requirement. Then you'd include your job offer as proof that you can continue that in the UK. When we applied for our UK partner visa, we weren't asked for any police checks or references - are you sure they're necessary? The UK partner visa is easy to do yourself. There's only one little quirk to watch out for - at the time we applied, the main application was done online, but there was an extra form that had to be printed off and filled in. There was no mention of this form anywhere in the online section so we nearly missed it, and our application would've been rejected without it! Here it is: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733638/VAF4A-Appendix2-08-18.pdf Note that you have to give an accommodation address in the UK. This is really important and can't be just a hotel. They want to be assured that you have a place where you can stay comfortably for a reasonable length of time. We gave my sister's address because she has a a large house with plenty of room (even though we had no intention of living there, in fact we weren't planning to live in the same town!). I talked to her so she'd be aware if anyone rang to check, but no one did - however I've heard of people being refused because the accommodation was deemed inadequate, so it's something to consider. Once you've submitted the online form, you have to print it all off and then book a face-to-face appointment. Your partner will have to take all the forms and all your original documents to that appointment and hand them in - including his passport. He won't get any of it back until the visa is granted. At the time we applied, we were told it would take six weeks but it only took three. Obviously since he has to hand in his passport, you won't be able to go to the UK until he gets it back.